Thanks to @Appljous for letting me play on his copy of the game and also making me realise how much I wanna kill Kirby.
Fighting games are…interesting, to say the least. They’re an opportunity to not only bring lots of characters together, but to bring people together too. There are always some really fun opportunities which come out of fighting games, and lots and I mean lots of button mashing. For many, their first foray into fighting games was most likely smash bros. One of the most well known fighting games on the planet. But before there were a total of 82 fighters, with franchises from all over, there were only 12, on a little console known as the Nintendo 64. The game came together once Sakurai was interested in making a 3D fighting game for the console with, drumroll, Nintendo characters. He made a demo with Mario, donkey kong, samus, and fox and the reception was very positive with the game eventually being green lit. So let’s take a look at it!
So to begin with you have a few options, you can either play single player or multiplayer. Now before you ask, no, the single player mode is not for the loners. If anything, it’s actually quite an important mode. But we’ll get onto that later. You have the choice of 6 characters to begin with Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Kirby, Fox, and Pikachu. All from their respective franchises. As you play the single player however, you have the opportunity to unlock 4 more characters: Luigi, Ness, Captain Falcon, and Jigglypuff. The thing about the bonus characters is that, well they make sense how they got into the game. Luigi and Jigglypuff are both basically copies of Mario and Kirby respectively. The only 2 outliers are Ness and Captain Falcon. Though Captain Falcon feels like he took some liberties from Samus whilst Ness is just…well Ness. But how do you unlock these characters?
The single player mode of course! This is a journey whereby you choose between your fighters and go through a set of fights and bonus stages. The fights are all with certain characters on their respective stages (the stages include: peach’s castle, Kongo jungle, hyrule castle, super happy tree, dream land, and saffron city, however you can unlock mushroom kingdom as a brand new stage). You even have 2 bonus rounds: break the targets and board the platforms. They are both what they say on the tin and can change depending on the character - a complete difference to the actual single player mode. The problem is that…the single player mode always has the same stages in the same order with barely any changes (unless you changed the difficulty or amount of stocks). The multiplayer mode is also what it says on the tin, being a fun mode to play against friends until one of you plays as Kirby.
So, how is smash bros? It’s actually pretty fun. Later entries would obviously improve or unimprove certain mechanics. Overall, this is still a really fun fighting game with some really interesting mechanics and it’s still aged pretty well (we don’t talk about Kirby). Also a huge thank you to the smash remix discord server. Ya’ll gave me some really good strategies and, eventually, I do promise to play smash remix.
Good first try, strange stages, great character selection, fuck Kirby
Fighting games are…interesting, to say the least. They’re an opportunity to not only bring lots of characters together, but to bring people together too. There are always some really fun opportunities which come out of fighting games, and lots and I mean lots of button mashing. For many, their first foray into fighting games was most likely smash bros. One of the most well known fighting games on the planet. But before there were a total of 82 fighters, with franchises from all over, there were only 12, on a little console known as the Nintendo 64. The game came together once Sakurai was interested in making a 3D fighting game for the console with, drumroll, Nintendo characters. He made a demo with Mario, donkey kong, samus, and fox and the reception was very positive with the game eventually being green lit. So let’s take a look at it!
So to begin with you have a few options, you can either play single player or multiplayer. Now before you ask, no, the single player mode is not for the loners. If anything, it’s actually quite an important mode. But we’ll get onto that later. You have the choice of 6 characters to begin with Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Kirby, Fox, and Pikachu. All from their respective franchises. As you play the single player however, you have the opportunity to unlock 4 more characters: Luigi, Ness, Captain Falcon, and Jigglypuff. The thing about the bonus characters is that, well they make sense how they got into the game. Luigi and Jigglypuff are both basically copies of Mario and Kirby respectively. The only 2 outliers are Ness and Captain Falcon. Though Captain Falcon feels like he took some liberties from Samus whilst Ness is just…well Ness. But how do you unlock these characters?
The single player mode of course! This is a journey whereby you choose between your fighters and go through a set of fights and bonus stages. The fights are all with certain characters on their respective stages (the stages include: peach’s castle, Kongo jungle, hyrule castle, super happy tree, dream land, and saffron city, however you can unlock mushroom kingdom as a brand new stage). You even have 2 bonus rounds: break the targets and board the platforms. They are both what they say on the tin and can change depending on the character - a complete difference to the actual single player mode. The problem is that…the single player mode always has the same stages in the same order with barely any changes (unless you changed the difficulty or amount of stocks). The multiplayer mode is also what it says on the tin, being a fun mode to play against friends until one of you plays as Kirby.
So, how is smash bros? It’s actually pretty fun. Later entries would obviously improve or unimprove certain mechanics. Overall, this is still a really fun fighting game with some really interesting mechanics and it’s still aged pretty well (we don’t talk about Kirby). Also a huge thank you to the smash remix discord server. Ya’ll gave me some really good strategies and, eventually, I do promise to play smash remix.
Good first try, strange stages, great character selection, fuck Kirby
Appljous
5 months ago